can some one send me this article your all talking about or the url? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Acosta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] The article:
> Great comments here. Braille is an equally respectable as print. At least, > that is what i believe. never mind what the misguided sightlings think. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sherry Gomes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 10:20 AM > Subject: RE: [Braillenote] The article: > > > oh I agree with you about our machines. I was talking about the references > to braille itself. I grew up in the 60's, reading only braille, and envying > my sighted class mates who could read anything anytime they wanted. with > all our technology now, I can read to my hearts desire. In fact, web > braille was the thing that finally got me using my BN as more than a basic > note taker at work. I nearly wept the first time I read something on it, a > book. We have come a long way, but in this reporter's eyes, it seems we are > still struggling with a difficult and confusing medium, instead of the means > of literacy that it is to so many of us. I mean, wow, a blind teen used a > braille note on TV! That is so cool. Imagine what she'd have had to use in > our time. It's fantastic, but the fact that she uses braille isn't the > miracle. the miracle is the technology that gives us so many other options. > > Sherry > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Ellen > Earls > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 9:42 AM > To: Braillenote List > Subject: [Braillenote] The article: > > > You know, I don't know what to make of this article. > Yes the reporter was an idiot there is no doubt about it and the article was > > as badly written as any nineteenth century novel about the blind I have ever > > seen but think about this. Not a single one of us on this list would have > ever heard of oneanother unless we belonged to ACB or NFB or went to school > or a guide dog center or a rehab center were it not for this truly marvelous > > equipment. > You young people have no clue about what how us old goats got our education > and what we did not have. > I wake up every morning and thank my Heavenly Father that I can now download > > a book into the Braille Note. > I can remember when the only thing we had to use as first graderswere Haul > Braillers and then one day Mr. Eugeen Stephens head of special Education for > > our schools came in and presented Miss Mergentheimer with one Brand New > Perkins Brailler. Miss Mergentheimer treated that machine like gold. There > was a part of the classroom where we were not allowed to go as she said this > > was the shelf for her "pretties." On that shelf was a spice wrack with > spices to develop sense of smell and various objects for conceptualization > and on the very end sat that perkins Braille Writer and if we got an A. on > that spelling test we got to do our next lesson on the Perkins. > My point is, yes 99% of the sighted world are idiots and have this archaic > idea that if they lost their sight they wouldn't be able to cope and some > wouldn't. So yes indeed these machines are most definitely miracles and the > more sophistocated they become the more miraculous they will continue to be. > Mary Ellen Earls > Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday. > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >
